Any precautions for handling DNA?

>I have a vague recollection that since my undergrad days 30
>years ago, when DNA was thought to be biologically inactive in
>purified form (safe to handle in the lab), that some problems
>were found and some additional precautions (gloves, etc)
>started being used at least for some preparations.
>Help me recollect; was I reading Nature, or was it Analog? :-)
Probably Analog. Everyone I know eats DNA... sometimes two or three
three times a day, even :)
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- Sean Eddy
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England
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